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'We will not sit back': Israel vows to prevent Iran's permanent military presence in Syria


Sputnik
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:39 UTC
Israeli soldiers walk next to mobile artillery units
© AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit
Israeli soldiers walk next to mobile artillery units in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights near the border with Syria
Tehran has repeatedly slammed Israeli and US claims of Iran's military presence in Syria as groundless, though admitted sending military advisors to help Damascus fight terrorism.

Israel is not interested in the escalation in Syria, but will respond if Iran continues to "provoke" the situation on the Syrian border, Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General Alexander Ben-Zvi said Monday.

"I hope that this will not happen ... Of course, if they [the Iranian armed forces] attack the territory of Israel - and we regard the drone incident as a direct attack on the territory of Israel - then we will not have any other way out. We will not sit back. And anyone who wants to take some steps, should understand that there will be retaliatory measures," Ben-Zvi told reporters, commenting on Ban's statement.

According to him, Iran's military presence in Syria allegedly escalates the confict, while Israel will make every effort to prevent it from becoming permanent.
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Washington accuses Moscow of 'killing civilians' in E. Ghouta, Syria in '20 daily' bombing runs


RT
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:40 UTC
Syrian anti-government fighter
© Abdulmomam Eassa / AFP
Syrian anti-government fighter in eastern Ghouta near Damascus, February 15, 2018
The US White House has accused Russia of "killing innocent civilians" in eastern Ghouta, Syria. It accuses Moscow, which has been striving for a ceasefire and exit corridors for civilians, of "ignoring" a UN resolution.

"The United States condemns the ongoing military offensive that the Assad regime, backed by Russia and Iran, is perpetrating against the people of Eastern Ghouta," the White House said in a statement on Sunday.

It went on to accuse Moscow of ignoring the conditions of the 30-day humanitarian pause in Syria introduced by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), claiming it had violated the cessation of hostilities "to kill innocent civilians under the false auspices of counterterrorism operations," in a strongly-worded statement.

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Assad: East Ghouta op against terrorists will continue in parallel with helping civilians escape


RT
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 21:16 UTC
Bashar Al-assad
© SANA/Handout via REUTERS
The Syrian leader vowed to continue the operation in eastern Ghouta, underlining its importance in the fight against terrorism. He said that it would be conducted in parallel with work on allowing civilians to leave the area.

"We will continue to fight terrorism... And the Ghouta operation is a continuation of the fight against terrorism," Syrian President Bashar Assad said in broadcast comments to journalists. "There is no contradiction between a truce and combat operations. The progress achieved yesterday and the day before in Ghouta by the Syrian Arab Army was made during this truce."

"Therefore we must continue with the operation in parallel with opening the way for civilians to leave." An "overwhelming majority" of the civilian population in eastern Ghouta "wants to break out from terrorists' hands," Assad said.

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Bad Guys

Steele-Winer-Nuland connection: Link between RussiaGate and the Neocon plot to foment war in the Ukraine

Roger Stones
Russia Insider
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
It's the same gang of deep-staters, in cahoots with each other.
  • The viciousness of their pursuit of Manafort is payback for his pre-2014 support of the pro-Russian president. British intelligence in the person of Christopher Steele, who collaborated with Victoria Nuland in the Ukraine, is part of the plot.
  • Senator Cardin is another active plotter.
  • Pro-Trump Republicans like Devin Nunes are aware of the connections, and are exposing the malfeasance.
Victoria Nuland
© Unknown
She keeps popping up in all the wrong places
It is not exactly a secret that so-called neo-conservatives in the U.S. State Department and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in conjunction with "left-wing" speculator and City of London operative George Soros, collaborated in the regime change coup in Ukraine in February 2014, which overthrew the democratically-elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. Former Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs, the unabashed neocon Victoria Nuland, bragged that the U.S. and related agencies, such as the NED, spent $5 billion to lay the groundwork for the coup. She keeps popping up in all the wrong places

What is not generally known, however, due to the lying coverage in the Transatlantic "Fake News" media, is that included in this unholy alliance of coup plotters were armed militia units made up of neo-Nazis, who were responsible for the bloodshed on Maidan Square in Kiev, and which threatened the ethnic Russians, which constitute the majority of the population in the eastern Ukraine regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.

Comment: US can try to prop-up Ukraine against Russia. However Putin doesn't trust the lunatics that are running the deep state and their witch-hunt circus against Donald Trump. See also:

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Light Sabers

Mark Levin: The attacks on Trump and his family are 'unparalleled in American history!'

Phil Shiver
Conservative Review
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Donald Trump
© Bloomberg | Getty Images
Friday night on his radio show, LevinTV host Mark Levin went off on the media and the Democrats for their attacks on President Trump and his family, calling their relentless assault "unparalleled in American history!"

"I have never seen anything like this in my entire life ... these people have done nothing to deserve this kind of treatment," Levin said. He also broke down how leftists in the government and media have sought to undermine Trump since the beginning of his campaign.

Comment: This is the first time an American president was elected against the wish of the American establishment since WWII. Donald Trump's victory in the last US presidential election sent the chills across the the establishment and the Deep state. The failure of fake "Russiagate" investigation not only exposed the power of the deep state actors like FBI and the powerful liberal establishment and it made them vulnerable for prosecution for the corruption and abuse of power. The Media attack on the Trump's family is desperate attempt to control him to maintain their power.
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Yoda

Aftershocks still reverberating from Putin's State of the Nation address: Russia, China, the US and the balance of power' restored

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:56 UTC
trump Putin xi china armaments
As the repercussions of President Putin's State of the Nation address sink in, it is useful to highlight those words in the address which set out Russian thinking on international relations, and which explain Russian actions, including first and foremost the military build up President Putin discussed during the address.

Western orthodoxy about Russia - repeated in endless media articles and position papers - is that Russia is a 'revisionist' power, with Putin set on re-creating the USSR and reversing Russia's 'defeat' in the Cold War, and prepared in order to achieve this to overturn the 'rules based international order' the US supposedly established following the end of the Second World War.

The Russians do not conceive of themselves in that way at all. Nor do they recognise the above paragraph as an accurate reflection of the current state of international relations.
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Better Earth

With IOC ban lifted, Russian Olympic doping scandal probably only in remission as Russia's enemies plan next attack

Alexander Mercouris
Russia Feed
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:58 UTC
olympics
Despite considerable backstairs pressure the International Olympic Committee has decided - as was widely expected - to reinstate the Russian Olympic Committee after the end of the PyeongChang Winter Games despite two Russian athletes failing doping tests.

The International Olympic Committee seems to have accepted that these two doping violations were individual cases and were not evidence of any larger doping conspiracy in Russia.

I should say that on balance I think this is correct. Two extremely shrewd observers of the international scene - Rick Sterling and The Saker - have both expressed the opinion that the doping violations might have happened because the athletes' food or drink was spiked by those who want to prevent Russia's reinstatement in the Olympic movement.

That is far from being a farfetched theory, but it is necessary to say that there is no actual evidence that it happened, and people do from time to time do bad and stupid things.

As to where the opposition to Russia's reinstatement has come from that has been made all too clear by the comments of Adam Pengilly, the British Olympic Committee's representative on the International Olympic Committee, who has recently been forced to resign after being sent home from PyeongChang following an altercation with a security guard.
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TV

NBC's Megyn Kelly gets demolished (again) by Vladimir Putin in latest one-on-one interview (Video)

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:08 UTC
Putin
© NBC News
NBC's Megyn Kelly is once again sitting down with Russian President Vladimir Putin to disseminate Deep State propaganda to her Today Show base, and maybe give it another go at trying to outsmart Russia's President.

As expected, Kelly looks like a complete fool when confronting Putin, as she peddles the tiresome and stupid narrative of "Russian bots" and "Facebook Ads", only to be schooled by Putin on how the real world of diplomacy and international law works.

Interview below...

Comment: One would think Ms. Kelly would approach Putin with a little more caution and respect, considering her last interview attempt. Apparently she hasn't learned. The highlight reel of the SPIEF conference in which Kelly attempted to play the tough moderator in a discussion between Putin and the presidents of India and Moldova.

Putin's best moments at SPIEF while smashing NBC's airhead Megyn Kelly

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Map

Syrian proxy war sitrep: Afrin, Idlib, East Ghouta


Moon of Alabama
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 21:41 UTC
After a slow start the Turkish and Jihadi attack on the Afrin canton in north-west Syria is making some progress. Despite intimate knowledge of the terrain and years of preparation the local Kurdish forces of the YPK have little chance to withstand.
afrin map march
© syriancivilwarmap.com
Turkish air and artillery support for the attacking force opponents is overwhelming the Kurds. The ground troops Turkey is using are mostly Islamist Free Syrian Army fighters directed by Turkish officers. A few Turkish special forces are acting as forward observers to call in artillery and airstrikes. Only yesterday the Turkish air force flew more than 30 bombing missions on a rather small front. Today some 36 fighters were killed by Turkish air strikes.

Last week the local Kurdish forces were reinforced by other Kurdish forces and Syrian government paramilitaries. Some of the Kurdish groups had split off from the U.S.-supported SDF in east Syria, crossed through Syrian government-held land and reached Afrin. Kurdish groups in Aleppo city gave control of two of the three districts they held to the Syrian government to join their brethren in Afrin. A contingent of 500 Syrian paramilitary fighters from two Shiite towns near Afrin also joined the fight. The Turkish army tried to interdict the convoys reinforcing Afrin but most of the fighters reached the front lines. The Syrian Red Cross sent a convoy with humanitarian goods for the about one million inhabitants of the canton.

Comment: According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the terrorists in East Ghouta have imposed a curfew on the civilians under their control, severely punishing them when trying to escape Ghouta into the protection of the Syrian Army:
Militants controlling the Damascus suburb have shelled a medical aid point and continuously open fire at a checkpoint in the area, Major General Vladimir Zolotukhin, a spokesman for the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Syria, told reporters on Sunday.

"At 12:50 [10:50 GMT] the militants from western suburbs of the Er-Rikhan settlement shelled a medical aid point. Six mortar shells exploded at a distance of 200-400 meters in the west," Zolotukhin said. He added that no one was injured in the attacks, unlike yesterday's assault at the humanitarian corridor, which left three civilians wounded.

Apart from constantly attacking the corridor, militants have also introduced a curfew to coincide with the daily five-hour humanitarian pauses to prevent civilians from fleeing. They have also prohibited people from holding any public gatherings, according to the official.

"Civilians violating the rules established by the militants are severely punished in public," the general said, referring to information obtained earlier by the reconciliation center.

The Russian military has previously reported that the civilian population was being used as "human shield" by the terrorists. On Sunday, Zolotukhin said that they "hide behind the backs of the elderly, women and children" while boosting their positions inside civilian infrastructure.


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Mr. Potato

Ex-CIA chief and crazy person John Brennan calls Trump "unstable, inept, inexperienced, unethical"

John Bowden
The Hill
Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:36 UTC
Brennan
© The Counter Jihad Report
Former CIA director John Brennan
Former CIA chief John Brennan on Friday predicted "rough waters ahead," particularly on international issues, saying President Trump is "unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical."

In an interview with MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Brennan told host Nicolle Wallace that the president was "ill prepared" to take on the duties of commander in chief, particularly growing military aggression from Russia and North Korea.

"It is no secret to anybody that Donald Trump was very ill prepared and unexperienced in terms of dealing with matters that a head of state needs to deal with, head of government, and I think this is now coming to roost," Brennan said.

"Our country needs to have confidence that we're going to be able to deal with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who is flexing his muscles once again on the military front, that we can deal with North Korea, that we can deal with these issues. And if we have somebody in the Oval Office who is unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical - we really have rough waters ahead."


Comment: Hmm, Brennan must think Trump won't go to war with Russia and North Korea. And that's a bad thing?

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